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Silk and steel: the life of Olivia de Havilland
On the eve of her 100th birthday, Farran Smith Nehme celebrates the career of the last of the great pre-World War II Hollywood stars, a woman who was not only a fabulous performer but also a thorn in the side of the studios, winning a key legal battle for which every actor in Tinseltown owed a debt of gratitude.
Wednesday 29 June 2016 -
Catharine Des Forges remembers a Ken Loach romantic heroine and a genuine working-class 1960s British movie star, half a century after their quartet of classics that culminated in Poor Cow.
Friday 17 June 2016 -
Perchance to dream: a long night with Apichatpong’s shorts
Giovanni Marchini reports on a marathon all-night reverie with Apichatpong ‘Joe’ Weerasethakul’s filmic lullabies – five of his features and 29 of his shorts – and wonders, as dawn broke and the films grew darker, if Joe has lost his joy?
Friday 17 June 2016 -
For our second annual showcase of the festival’s best posters, we picked two winners – from a wonderfully rich field. Is a festival the best place to see the uncompromised art of the film poster, asks Isabel Stevens?
Sunday 22 May 2016 -
In search of lost time: Bryan Singer’s superhero mind games
Tim Hayes revisits the origin story of Bryan Singer, the greatest of the modern superhero directors, for whom self-knowledge is the ultimate quest and question.
Friday 13 May 2016 -
From the Magazine
Born in the extrovert idealism of the frontier drama, the western was slow to adapt to the social malaise and anti-communist paranoia of the post-war period. Graham Fuller explains how it took its dark turn to incorporate contemporary socio-politics and psychology, with 12 case studies.
Monday 9 May 2016 -
From the Magazine
Westward the women! Distaff furies of the psychological west
There’s never been anything quite like Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar, but many other post-war westerns of the era also found great post-frontier roles for women, writes Imogen Sara Smith.
Monday 9 May 2016 -
Bleed, bleed, poor country: Shakespeare on the Indian screen
From Maharashtra to Kerala to West Bengal, filmmakers in the world’s biggest movie industry are turning to the Bard’s tragedies against a backdrop of rising state repression, write Koel Chatterjee and Preti Taneja.
Tuesday 26 April 2016 -
A nomad in Paris: revisiting the films of Ra(o)ul Ruiz
As the Cinémathèque Française takes a two-month journey through the extraordinary career of Raúl Ruiz, Ian Christie reflects on how the filmmaker never lost contact with Chile, even after Pinochet’s military coup forced him into exile.
Monday 18 April 2016 -
Keeping one’s mouth shut in Turkey: rediscovering Tongue Twister
A lost gem of collective melancholy, Solakhan’s 1985 snapshot of Istanbul under the shadow military oppression made its belated local premiere last month – in a city still not used to seeing its own past reflection, says Neil Young.
Friday 1 April 2016
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